ACBF Knowledge Management Department (KMD) has introduced a Series on “Findings and Recommendations” (FIRE) to enhance the dissemination of its knowledge products and services to the Foundation’s Operations Departments. This series provides a crisp summary of Lessons Notes, Occasional Papers, Operations and Thematic Research as well as Working Papers and Development Memoirs produced by the Department to aid Operations Departments in project and program development exercise. For each of these knowledge products, the presentation focuses on the core objectives, the key issues, the main findings, actionable recommendations and implications for interventions in capacity building by ACBF or other partner institutions. FIRE Notes also re-assess ACBF entry points in specific capacity building operations. While these Notes are targeted at ACBF Operations Departments, they are available to professionals in all capacity building institutions. The Department in May 2008 released the first two Notes. The first takes on the issue of the “Resuscitation of the African Statistical Association as a Knowledge Sharing Platform for African Statisticians and Statistical Institutions”, while the second examines “State-Civil Society Relations and Implications for Capacity Building”

You are invited to take advantage of this new series, as it is a source of project ideas, reforms for project and program design and implementation, and a tool for knowledge sharing and information exchange.

ACBF Knowledge Management Department welcomes your comments, feedback and reaction to the content of the series.